Renee A. Blake
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Dr. Renée A. Blake is an African-American linguistics professor at New York University.
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[edit] Biography
Dr. Renée A. Blake started and completed her tertiary level education at Stanford University. At Stanford, Dr. Blake was conferred her B.Sc in Biology in May of the year 1987. Subsequently, she received her M.A. in Linguistics in May 1993 and later her Ph.D. in that same field in May of 1997. During this time Dr. Blake was also a student of language and thought at various institutions worldwide. She has undertaken additional coursework at University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados and at Universita per Stranieri di Perugia, Italy.
Dr. Blake is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Africana Studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University and was a visiting professor at University of Michigan in the spring semester of 2004. In addition, she serves as a Faculty Fellow in Residence. Through the years, Dr. Blake has made various contributions to the field of Linguistics. Her research is focused on issues of language contact, race, ethnicity and class within several US communities and throughout the Caribbean and her areas of specialization include sociolinguistics, language variation, Pidgins and Creoles and African American Vernacular English, which suggest a descriptive (i.e. the way people actually speak) as opposed to a prescriptive (i.e. the way in which people ought to speak.)
A recipient of the Fulbright Grant, Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship and National Science Foundation grant, Dr. Blake established a web based project called, “Voices of New York” which examines the extent to which specific languages of various ethnic groups in the city are being sustained or lost. Dr. Blake has enjoyed success with the publications of various articles on the role of language in the sores of social interactions and relations.
[edit] Published works
- "Contraction and Deletion of the Copula in Barbadian English," with John Rickford, Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 16 (1990): 257-68.
- "Rappin' on the Copula Coffin: Theoretical and Methodological Issues in the Analysis of Copula Variation in African American Vernacular English," with J. Rickford, A. Ball, R. Jackson, and N. Martin, Language Variation and Change 3 (1991): 103-32;
- "Barbadian Creole English: Insights into Class and Race Identity," Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies
- "Resolving the Don't Count Cases in the Quantitative Analyses of the Copula in African American Vernacular English," Language Variation and Change (forthcoming 1996);
- Blake, R.A., Cutler, C (2003). AAE and variation in teachers' attitudes: A question of school philosophy. Linguistics and Education 14(2) 163-194
- Blake, R.A. (under review) Something in the "urr": Vowel centralization before /r/ in two AAE dialects
